Brian Eno
Focus mainly on his "vocal" albums

Brian Eno was born 15 May 1948. He is professionally known as simply Eno. He is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.

He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon became tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry.

After leaving Roxy Music Eno embarked on a solo career almost immediately. Between 1973 and 1977 he created four albums of largely electronically inflected rock and pop songs – Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science,

Eno continued his career by producing a larger number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He is widely credited with coining the term "ambient music" low-volume music designed to modify one's perception of a surrounding environment. His first such work, 1975's Discreet Music (again created via an elaborate tape-delay methodology, which Eno diagrammed on the back cover of the LP ), is considered the landmark album of the genre. This was followed by his Ambient series (Music for Airports (Ambient 1), The Plateaux of Mirror (Ambient 2), Day of Radiance (Ambient 3) and On Land (Ambient 4)). Eno was the primary musician on these releases with the exception of Ambient 2 which featured Harold Budd on keyboard, and Ambient 3 where the American composer Laraaji was the sole musician playing the zither and hammered dulcimer with Eno producing..

Eno returned in June 2005 with Another Day on Earth, his first major album since Wrong Way Up (with John Cale) to prominently feature vocals (a trend continued with Everything That Happens Will Happen Today). The album differs from his 1970s solo work as musical production has changed since then, evident in its semi-electronic production.

Source ~ Wikipedia

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Discography :

1. Here Come the Warm Jets - Island 1974

Tracks:
1. Needles in the Camel's Eye / 2. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch / 3. Baby's on Fire / 4. Cindy Tells Me / 5. Driving Me Backwards / 6. On Some Faraway Beach / 7. Blank Frank / 8. Dead Finks Don't Talk / 9. Some of Them Are Old / 10. Here Come the Warm Jets
Rating : 8

2. Taking Tiger Mountain - Island 1974

Tracks:
1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More / 2. Back in Judy's Jungle / 3. The Fat Lady of Limbourg / 4. Mother Whale Eyeless / 5. The Great Pretender / 6. Third Uncle / 7. Put a Straw Under Baby / 8. The True Wheel / 9. China My China / 10. Taking Tiger Mountain
Rating : 7

3. Another Green World - Island 1975

Tracks:
1. Sky Saw¨/ 2. Over Fire Island / 3. St. Elmo's Fire / 4. In Dark Trees / 5. The Big Ship / 6. I'll Come Running / 7. Another Green World / 8. Sombre Reptiles / 9. Little Fishes / 10. Golden Hours / 11. Becalmed / 12. Zawinul/Lava / 13. Everything Merges with the Night / 14. Spirits Drifting
Rating : 6

Before and After Science - Island 1977

Tracks:
1. No One Receiving / 2. Backwater / 3. Kurt's Rejoinder / 4. Energy Fools the Magician / 5. King's Lead Hat / 6. Here He Comes / 7. Julie With ... / 8. By This River / 9. Through Hollow Lands / 10. Spider and I
Rating : 7

5. Wrong Way Up - 1990 ( with John Cale )

Tracks:
1. Lay My Love / 2. One Word / 3. In the Backroom / 4. Empty Frame / 5. Cordoba / 6. Spinning Away / 7. Footsteps / 8. Been There, Done That / 9. Crime in the Desert / 10. The River / 11. Grandfather's House* / 12. You Don't Miss Your Water* / 13. Palanquin*
Rating :

6. Nerve Net - 1992

Tracks:
1. Fractal Zoom / 2. Wire Shock / 3. What Actually Happened? / 4. Pierre in Mist / 5. My Squelchy Life / 6. Juju Space Jazz / 7. The Roil, the Choke / 8. Ali Click / 9. Distributed Being / 10. Web / 11. Web (Lascaux Mix) / 12. Decentre
Rating :

7. Another Day on Earth - 2005

Tracks:
1. This / 2. And Then So Clear / 3. A Long Way Down / 4. Going Unconscious / 5. Caught Between / 6. Passing Over / 7. How Many Worlds / 8. Bottomliners / 10. Just Another Day / 11. Under / 12. Bone Bomb / 13. The Demon of the Mines*
Rating :

8. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today ( with David Byrne ) - 2008

Tracks:
1. Home / 2. My Big Nurse / 3. I Feel My Stuff / 4. Everything That Happens / 5. Life Is Long / 6. The River / 7. Strange Overtones / 8. Wanted for Life / 9. One Fine Day / 10. Poor Boy / 11. The Lighthouse / 12. Never Thought* / 13. Walking Along the River* / 14. The Eyes* / 15. The Painting*
Rating :

9. Forever No More - 2022

Tracks:
Who Gives a Thought / 2. We Let It Inn / 3. Icarus or Blériot / 4. Garden of Stars / 5. Inclusion / 6. There Were Bells / 7. Sherry / 8. I’m Hardly Me / 9. These Small Noises / 10. Making Gardens Out of Silence
Rating :

Besides these albums Eno has released this long list of instrumental albums:

Discreet Music - 1975 ( Instrumental album only )

Ambient 1: Music for Airports - 1978 ( Features vocies but no lyrics )

Music for Films - 1978 ( Instrumental album only )

After the Heat - 1978 ( The album has no traditional singing )

The Plateaux of Mirror - 1980 ( Instrumental album only )

Day of Radiance - 1980 ( Instrumental album only )

Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics - 1980 ( The album has no traditional singing )

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - 1981 ( Instrumental album only )

Ambient 4: On Land - 1982 ( Instrumental album only )

Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - 1983 ( Instrumental album only )

Music for Films Volume 2 - 1983 ( Instrumental album only )

The Pearl - 1984 ( Instrumental album only )

Thursday Afternoon - 1985 ( Instrumental album only )

Hybrid - 1985 ( Instrumental album only )

Music for Films III - 1988 ( Instrumental album only )

Textures - 1989 ( Instrumental album only )

The Shutov Assembly - 1992 ( Instrumental album only )

Neroli - 1993 ( Instrumental album only )

Spinner - 1995 ( Instrumental album only )

The Drop - 1997 ( Instrumental album only )

Extracts from Music for White Cube - 1997 ( Instrumental album only )

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace - 1997 ( Instrumental album only )

I Dormienti - 1999 ( Instrumental album only )

Kite Stories - 1999 ( Instrumental album only )

Music for Onmyo-Ji - 2000 ( The album has no traditional singing )

Music for Civic Recovery Centre - 2000 ( The album has no traditional singing )

Compact Forest Proposal - 2001 ( Instrumental album only )

Drawn from Life - 2001 ( Instrumental album only )

January 07003 - 2003 ( Instrumental album only )

Beyond Even - 2007 ( Instrumental album only )

Small Craft on a Milk Sea - 2010 ( Instrumental album only )

Lux - 2012 ( Instrumental album only )

High Life - 2014

The Ship - 2016

Reflection - 2017

Mixing Colours - 2020

Essential Albums!

Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - December 25 - 2014

3 Here Come the Warm Jets - 1974
4 Another Green World - 1975
9Taking Tiger Mountain - 1974
12 Before and After Science - 1977
405 Wrong Way Up - 1990
804 Nerve Net - 1992
969 Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - 2007
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